Favorite Titles

Picture Books

• Farmhouse by Sophie Blackall
• Berry Song by Michaela Goade
• Mama, Do You Love Me by Barbara M. Jooose & Barbara Lavallee
• From Head to Toe by Eric Carle
• Miss Nelson is Missing by Harry Allard & James Allard
• Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Wayne Rosen
• The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson

Early Chapter Books & Middle Grade Fiction:

• Clementine by Sara Pennypacker & Marla Frazee
• Matilda by Roald Dahl
• Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
• The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart
• Wonder by RJ Palacio
• Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage
• Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

Young Adult Fiction

• I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
• Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
• In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner
• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
• Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

General Fiction

• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
• Circe by Madeline Miller
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Memoir / Biography

• Educated by Tara Westover
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• Lit by Mary Karr
• Ordinary Hazards by Nikki Grimes
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
• On Writing by Stephen King

Poetry

• Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou
• The Lost Words: A Spell Book by Robert Macfarlane & Jackie Morris

Graphic Novels

• White Bird by RJ Palacio
• Flamer by Mike Curato

Nonfiction

• Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
• Writing Picture Books by Ann Whitford Paul
• Under the Banner of Heaven by John Krakauer
• The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt